Handles like a Bus - Scrapyard #10

[@Splitsie]

Keep an eye out tomorrow for a sneaky little video that'll be coming out then - all I can say for sure is that Capac is somehow in it and there might be a terrible pun :P

[@martinwyke]

or reverse the order of a stack of blocks.

[@DeathsGarden-oz9gg]

You should have a capac profe base. Aka look out for his holes 😂. But really you next game battle thing should be set up in 2 ways unmanned and man controlled battle bots at maximum 3 large grid blocks long 2 tall but all small grid blocks as this limit should make some interesting designs.

[@patryn36]

you know, with as many times i have seen you move things by crane it is quite sad to see how you do not have a means to anchor yourself to the ground so to move larger items and you put yourself in nonideal situations.

[@Billy_West]

Should have added a hinge to the drill. Then you could have it aty a down slope to make sure it's digging where you want and not just strait ahead. Easy fix my dude! Then the mini drill rover thing will work to dig out any space needed.

[@mandyspence1599]

Ooohhh!

[@SinnerD2010]

So basically Splitsie has become a scrapyard version of an eccentric hunter, hanging all his kills on trophy mounts on the walls. 🤣

[@Matt-KG7JQH]

Here's a scenario: however many identical frames with 4 wheels and a merge block and a partially built control seat. Players drag the frame with grabby hands to the first line where they pick up a small battery that has a merge block and get it to merge. Then drag the frame to the second line where there's a cargo container with the remaining parts to finish the control seat to drive to the finish line... The Drag Race!

[@zebrin]

That sounds pretty fun!

[@yifteranmai3507]

Now I wanna see a battle of two cranes trying to flip each other. No guns, just flailing arms and a mountain load of chaos. (You cant tell me that wouldnt be fun to watch)

[@swag-trap0123]

Have you watched engineering wars over at w4sted channel, robot wars but in SE. Dont think they did cranes per say but they did ramps and swinging arm like things. It's worth a watch.

[@leftblank131]

"There, just 3 more items and my course is complete" [Server cleanup in 30 second] "NOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!"

[@UfoLBeerSeeker]

"I is going to be aaages before i use any of those drills", 15 minutes later builds drill vehicle xD

[@Eisen_Jaeger]

classic Splitsie

[@Splitsie]

I was thinking the same thing while I was editing 😂

[@TubeTAG]

I know it’s a little late but “crane tug of war” is a game y’all should play.

[@Pystro]

The hamster ball race can be a downhill race. That way the players don't have to be able to move them, 'cause gravity will. The challenge could be about steering the ball, and landing it as close to a target marker as possible.

[@evlkenevl2721]

Splitsie: I'd like to have helicopter. Mom: We have helicopter at home.

[@akwel4816]

The helicopter: has wheels 😅

[@Beeblebum]

While this probably complicated to set up every time... Space Engineers Jenga with Cranes! 😂

[@Splitsie]

I think that would be fun, but the setup does make me hesitate more than a little :P

[@Beeblebum]

@@Splitsie Yeah, I was considering some solutions, but it is all manual building and placing, as you don't have a projector to rebuild structures. So when it collapses, its a lot of time putting it back together again.

[@hippyhappyhippo]

@@Beeblebum You could have another game where the contestants have to build towers, rebuilding for Jenga.

[@PoolOfTrees]

​@@Beeblebum@Splitsie Would having a magplate on each segment to make them stick together and then pasting in creative work to give the initial pile? Turning off all the magplates would be a pain though. Otherwise, could you do a trick using the scrap spawning mechanics to make a supporting structure holding every segment that is automatically removed?

[@mattp1337]

Somehow that bus is begging for 5x5 rear wheels so it looks like a post-apocalyptic hotrod. Lean into that Road Warrior aesthetic.

[@hoodedgenius3249]

Nah i wanna see that thing FLY!

[@roryamacnish]

How about a basketball style game where the cranes have to drop objects through progressively smaller/taller hoops? Also, crane breakdancing competition needs to happen. Mag plate to the ground and see who has the best moves! This is one of your best series to date and I look forward to it each week! Your scenario has breathed new life into Space Engineers and I'm hooked all over again, recently hitting the 700 hour mark. Cheers Splitsie and keep up the amazing work :) (also, just need to say that your video editing skill is criminally under-appreciated and deserves some serious recognition)

[@adamdante7306]

Another cool competition very much themed with this series would be 3D puzzle. Give everyone collection of chunks with merge blocks ready and ask to put it back together. First one to put it together wins. One rule is you can't modify anything but can use whatever works for lifting and attaching.

[@chakatfirepaw]

As a design note: You would have to be careful to not make it possible to end up fusing two of the pieces together. If nothing else, you could end up permanently merging two merge blocks on their sides. Perhaps it might work better with connectors.

[@warriorsabe1792]

After watching you still need to do three or four point turns sometimes, I have an idea for your telehandler: a button on your hotbar to enable front wheel steering at just as high of an angle as the back wheels. It'd allow for an even tighter turning circle when you need it. And if you can spare a timer (or just use multiple buttons) you could have it also set your wheels to invert steering on opposite corners and propulsion on opposite sides, letting you spin in place, as a substitute for the 90 degree steering angle of real forklifts And on the topic of ways different people approach things, if I were on the server, I'd probably go with a gantry-type crane, possibly with a goal of upgrading to a giant mobile base that also had a gantry crane

[@quinnomega]

Shack: *shoves small grid large thruster off a ledge* TIUS: "You have an interesting way of moving sensitive equipment." :D

[@thatonecephalopod9956]

Ah Splitsie. Time to yoink another building!

[@sinrkidd]

Splitsie you can also turn the bus into a flyer when you find more atmosphere thrusters I don't know how many atmosphere thrusters you will need but it would make a good flyer and you can use it to get more stuff

[@AirsoftManiac67]

A whole hour of scrapyard?!?! Love it man! Keep it up!

[@chadp6307]

Next Episode: Mom... a warehouse followed me home. Can I keep it?

[@wildfirelabs]

I've been waiting the entire week for this

[@magnagazoo4863]

Twist on the building in a scrap situation. Build a multi bay "shop" where the contestants cannot see what the others are doing. Give each shop bay the same materials. Set a build time, and see what each builder (or team) comes up with. Then they have to test it, in a use case they are told/shown up front. It will be interesting to see how given the same parts how each will solve the problem.

[@BobTheTrollKing]

You should do a destruction derby event with captured scrap rovers. That sounds amazing.

[@comradesoupbeans4437]

really glad you found a way to have your cake and eat it too in this one! i feel like putting your small grid scrap beacon on a merge block with its own battery and magplate could be quite handy for future situations like this

[@eppicshotgun1281]

*Get home from driving a school bus, sit down and watch Splitsie drag a school bus across the desert* I love it lol!

[@trwolf2k]

ok, two things. First, you would not be a pancake if the cargo fell on you. You'd be a Splatsie. Second: Splitsie gut 'Oh, helicopter!' Splitsie's brain 'No, we have helicopter at home!'

[@mrtonkandbattle]

please call the orange mini bus the capacrash bean

[@marshfire1733]

The swinging drill head reminds me of a baby elephant who just discovered its trunk. :D

[@Splitsie]

Lol 😂

[@diegomeraguimaraes8402]

Hey Splitsie, besides giving players full blocks to stack, you could make geometrical forms or use the other block variations besides the basic cubes to make it even more interesting

[@lenaistalar8032]

"Load safety, it's important." He says, while helicoptering a drill on a not built rotor on an extended telehandler arm xD

[@ultmateragnarok8376]

Dunno if the drill of damocles you've got above your hook control panel is really that great for building confidence. Or maybe I've got it backwards and it does show full confidence. You'd give an OSHA official a stroke climbing the arm of the telehandler like that, as well. Truly your warehouse is a wonder of a place. 22:34 Much as the other cargo was considerably more spectacular, I do quite like the little satellite dish on that rover. Can't tell if it spawns like that or was built after. 34:14 Seeing the school bus on its side like that reminds me that, for vehicle maintenance, you still need to deal with that building you rolled back to your place. Were it larger, it would be cool to see some sort of small grid piston array as a variable length lift - they come in from the sides, adjust to the vehicle's width, and then lift the whole thing off the floor so you can maintenance them. As it is now, the bus wouldn't even fit halfway into the thing, so it's not going to help there, but it still is another project that kind of needs doing. That, and scrapping whatever that little thing in there is. After all, if scrapping vehicles fully off those pads is such a pain, you can instead slate them for repair and use, or put them into the arena courses either as decor or as challenge obstacles.

[@PoolOfTrees]

Your mention of OSHA made me think that a little skit with, say, TFE playing a Health and Safety/OSHA Inspector dropping in on Splitsie's base unexpectedly and pointing out all the violations/infractions that he'll have to report. It's a shame April Fools Day has already passed.

[@Comet8489]

I'm not a good enough player for this server - it'd take me 5 times longer to do anything half as good. One awesome idea (imho) though is to have a "community scrapheap" as at 45:00 you mention "I have enough of these I don't need them any longer" - a central hub everyone can drop off spare parts gives a new reason for people to still collect scrap they might have grown out of.

[@BoroMonokli]

Plus you'll need a community plan to take on the south pole.

[@brandonfrye1834]

Spaceballs have adjustable weight and do not require power

[@LeeSpork]

IIRC the customizable weight only applies to artificial gravity, not natural gravity. Also, the mod probably prevents them from placing those anyway.

[@AutismicGoobie]

Hi Splitsie! just wanted to say that I love the series and I'm watching Assertive Acquisitions at the moment (I'm on ep48) and I just wanted to show my appreciation! underatted channel honestly

[@Anubite212]

Man, going through this series for fun and hearing Splitsie talk about turning a school bus into a troop transport just tingles every urge to make a joke about the U.S.A (since I live here, lol). MUST....RESIST!

[@Splitsie]

It feels like school buses get turned into all sorts of stuff over there e.g. prison transport :P

[@ThatOldGuyYouKnow]

You should make a attachable basket for the telehandler, so that you can use it as a cherry picker for building

[@diabloi]

If the large object is not going to be used or will not be used for a long time, then you can consider making a frame out of small squares, giving it an industrial style packaging, and adding a magnetic board at the bottom. I think it will become a suitable decorative warehouse object

[@ToaDrakua]

Grav-ball could be a good alternative to the glass ball (provided you could even make one).

[@arielmoonsoo9219]

A goofy idea next time you come across a bus/flatliner that you want to take home. Stick a hinge on the front of the found scrap, then detach from the trailer and attach to the scrap. You can then slap another rotor/hinge setup on the back of the scrap and use that to haul your flatliner/hauler. A different route would be to piston up the front of the scrap, and back your hauler under the nose of it. You can then drop the scrap down onto the back of the hauler.

[@garethmarshall6574]

I know it's a bit late but an idea, a great thing would be an engine vehicle, flatbed, crane trailer, flatbed, for a scrap vehicle. Separated into 4 sections. But all in all I am enjoying these episodes 🤙 Hello from Perth

[@TruthTheAntiVenom]

15:45 "I don't expect to be using these drills anytime soon" Well that didn't last long. 😂

[@Splitsie]

lol Yup :D

[@TemporalWolf]

43:54 "Is there anything else..." grinds away a large battery between the two hydro engines... hopefully not something you wanted I guess xD.

[@ryan_rands]

13:55 Last episode I was thinking you could add a small connector to the tip of your telehandler and be able to pick up the pallets without having to change every time. If you mount it to the side and just behind the magnetic plate, you won't have to change anything. This time I thought if you add a Helm to a pallet, when you pick it up, you now have a Liftsie for things like this. Or if your telehandler has an antenna, you don't need a helm.

[@nils-peterwihlney8732]

Yes! The scrap wall has been born!!! Great video man. I am happy you used one of my suggestions and made a large tool wall display in your warehouse. Looks awesome! Also, is that school bus wreck the Space engineer's version of the Magic School?

[@marystar1924]

What will be the endgame of Srrapyard? I think that there should be a unique datapad (can only appear once per game) that gives you coordinates to a spacestation that you need to reach to save yourself (Space Engineer ending). Destroy the drones and their base at the poles (combat ending). Create a faction, convince all players to join, create a faction grid/hamlet/base to resist three drones attacks (survival-coop ending). You probably have those ideas already, but just in case you do not. Also, having three different endings increases the replayability of your mod.

[@marystar1924]

Also, you should anchor your vehicle when moving heavy stuff like you show in your tutorials. ;)

[@n0bl3hunt3r]

And you thought lifting the bus was hard. Now you’re lifting a warehouse :P

[@BrothersInArmsCoalition]

I'm dying after hearing splitsie say "Flatmos" 😂

[@LordDrackonel]

Space Engineers Crossfit edition... great idea...

[@Dani-nl2id]

39:50 What the heck! I want to live here, that's beautiful

[@lawlerjohnp]

The hamster ball idea is valid, you just need to build a ring and make it hamster ball sumo wrestling. Competition is to push each other out.

[@Chronostra]

Splits, hear me out: Bowling Alley. You spin a wheel on a suspension, align it left and right, up and down with pistons, and detach. Lane with two ditches left and right. Needs some welders for auto creating and placing pins and welding the ball/wheel and grinder for a grinder pits in the end of the lane, for auto collecting the pins/ball materials tho. also 54:30 & 59:08, you know what's quicker? converting that flat bed to be dump able flat bed. You know the one that rotates to dump stuffs (idk what it's called lol)?

[@johnrtrucker]

"I wanna bring that warehouse home with me..." -Splitsie 2024 😂😂😂

[@vengefulones6435]

Splitzie,you capaced it.

[@severdlimbs5955]

Looks like a fish, moves like a fish, steers like a cow

[@kelemvour]

The RBLF needs to learn how to clip the Splitsie admitting he’s an Idjit… That’s priceless! 😂😂😂 And ALL Batteries, regardless of size are worth getting!!

[@zerocoolest8105]

FYI splitsie, the last time I played the scrapyard scenario I was allowed to build grid drills, grinders, & welders from the G menu. You may want to double check that.

[@voidphilosopher42]

Competition sugestion: X number of players, in the center, a pile of welded blocks, one color for each player and the same total number of blocks of each color. Whoever picks up all the blocks of their color and places them in their area first wins a number of points. Second place has less points and so on. Could have additional rules on organizing the pile, the tallest pile gets extra points, second tallest less, and so on, based on number of players; so it's not only about speed, but also height. Add a max time limit, and now people need to choose what to focus, gather or pile. The center pile would need to be distributed fairly, as some of your colors should close, and some are far. Subsequent competitions could have terrain features and obstacles, like the score location and the pile are separated by a chasm and there are 1 or 2 thin bridges to cross it or a wide one but further and a thin one which your design may not even let you use. Or the pile is in a crater or bottom of a ravine so reach maneuverability and center of mass to drive in are important. If that ever gets too dull, sensors and booby traps are sure to get the blood pumping. Ohhhh! Red chose the fast route through the minefield will he make it!? *explosion* aaand red's out of the competition. *Might need collective agreement to creative mode paste in destroyed cranes back after the event.

[@voidphilosopher42]

Sugestion 2, prizes: An unwelded block of their choice, or 2 small grid ones (they'll have to get the parts separately, block must be within the obtainable pool of blocks) Other prizes could be a certain amount of parts or ingots, say a player's inventory worth depending on placement. Top tier tools, Energy packs, med kits. Klang cola. Commentators: if possible Capac AND Steve that throwback would be hilarious

[@HadienReiRick]

19:45 if you look back at the older footage you had a welding plate attached to the Gyroscope at the time. Thats a possibility to why you could easily move it then.

[@bobmann1583]

I really enjoy the scrapyard videos. They're pretty much the only hour long videos I will watch. I can't play the game but I really enjoy watching. I hope there will be many more. Don't forget to put pylons on your crane truck.

[@Psycorde]

"Roverize" is certainly a word

[@RegularBiscuit]

I'VE BEEN WAITING ALL WEEK LETS GOO

[@ditheraith]

The scrap must flow.

[@RoadHouse0428]

Idea I had for your battery situation for your multiple small grid creations. Have an access battery pack of small batteries you can unhook and charge on the base and you can have have extra incase of emergencies

[@astonmartin0468]

love this series. keep it up. thanks

[@jamesmcdonald3054]

Competition idea: clang golf. Contestants build a contraption to throw a block as far as possible towards a marker. Make it fair by limiting the number of components allowed. The block must fly with no extra blocks attached.

[@robinloucks1351]

Windmill. Hang it from the ceiling of your warehouse as a ceiling fan.

[@faceplant950]

If you find another bus, you can turn it into a sold-as-surplus battle bus from fortnite. Would make an interesting piece for the scrapyard. A smaller version could be the magic school bus. :)

[@Zardozpuke]

Those doors are really tough. Make a tank with door armor for braving the Pole.

[@suborbitalprocess]

How about a hammer throw with a crane truck? Pick up a relatively heavy block, do donuts and release, see how far you can send it!

[@TheGemmaster22]

@14:00 you could have just flattened your telehandlers pickup to the flat of the drill and then angled it upright. So the drill would hang down and be flat against the magplate

[@Tankling28]

you should put 4 wheels on the warehouse and park your vehicles in it, then drive it back to your base

[@PoolOfTrees]

That was my thought too. You can imagine all the things that could have gone wrong though...

[@MistahBryan]

3:50, Maybe a Jenga like game? The blocks are different colours and stacked, Players use their Cranes to pull blocks out.

[@frankmartel5775]

Still no light at the end of your crane 😉

[@shadenphoenix]

I always like to keep one tiny battery as the car's own starter battery. That way when it does die, you can easily lock a lock or move things for a short moment while the main battery may be dead. This allows for landing gear or computers or anything else to be used while everything else is turned off. If you name it separately like emergency battery or whatever, you keep it in recharge mode so that it always has a charge even when the rest of them die. Then when you realize it is completely dead, you turn everything off that drain the other batteries and you just turn on the emergency battery that you can use for small things.

[@shadenphoenix]

^--{6:30)

[@shadenphoenix]

I keep forgetting to mention you have a hard time getting in the seat of the flatbed truck all the time just lower the side windows down while keeping the same style at least one block or even a 45 degree and that way you can reach the seat much easier or put a small lower window like some trucks have near the foot so that you can see up into the seat and get in easier. Or just add a small side step you can jump on before you click on the seat through the window.

[@shadenphoenix]

11:39 LOL. If you just drove around through the other door or like you came in from the second door, you would be in place. Then you just bend down, grab it, lift up, stick it on the wall, and it would be facing down just like you wanted.

[@shadenphoenix]

26:08 Since it has the front two wheels on there, or at least the frame of one, it will roll. Turning it around and backing the flatbed up to the back of the bus. All you have to do is lift the back of the bus and attach it to the rear of the flatbed and lock it in place and extend your trailer for this one trip, while still being able to load things on the middle and front of the flatbed.

[@shadenphoenix]

Also, you keep forgetting that your trailer can be detached so that you can leave the flatbed close to the item, drive the crane around so that you can face it front or back so that you have leverage, and lift it onto the trailer, and then reattach to the trailer.

[@MistahBryan]

1:48, You could incorporate that "ball" into the "Game" TFE was building in Stationeers :)

[@vadernation1233]

I saw a couple of sound blocks on the helicopter and I don’t think you ground those down. They have 3 computers each so definitely keep those in mind.

[@Gentleman...Driver]

Somehow I am imagining how you end up in real life stranded on a bare island without supplies. After a few weeks you will open up your first Casino, made from what you found on the beaches. And it will look better than anything thats in Las Vegas, too.

[@Splitsie]

lol :D

[@davidshafer1872]

I had an idea for a gantry crane I want you to try. I’d do it myself but I don’t have a good enough PC to run Space Engineers. Start by putting a post at either end of your warehouses widest ends. At each post attach as many pistons as are necessary to meet in the middle with a block in the middle. Set the pistons up so that when one moves in the other(s) move out. On the block between the first two pistons attach a rotor and then to that a hinge. To that hinge attach as many pistons as are necessary to reach from front to back of your warehouse. Hopefully it works out okay.

[@dei_walker]

Oh Splitsie...forever trying to improve your creations. I feel your pain!!! I'd power through more gameplay if i'd ever stop tinkering with my builds.

[@hectoris919]

What if you made the Telehandler have a mode in it that allows you to rotate the front and back wheels as far as they’ll possibly go so it can do a pinpoint turn?

[@wreckervilla]

I'm not sure the mag plate back wall really make the scrap workshop theme quite like an engine suspended from the ceiling would

[@Conqueror933]

Just in case you didn't think of this, with the whole school bus drama, you could unlock your trailer truck and drive it around to put the bus on (just the heck, leave the bus rolling on its front)

[@aaronsteuper3386]

I actually think since you've got that big crane you should pick up the other windmill and stand it up before somebody comes and takes it

[@kylebennett7518]

Wheels are spheres? Well that explains a few things. Edit: Can't wait to see the warehouse move.

[@fredpryde8555]

i can see this challenge is going to be a total crack up lol

[@lordsherifftakari4127]

one can NEVER have enough room for stuff! even merging the two Warehouses into one giant building still works. though one may want to consider properly repairing the roof & walls. you will need LG batts to power your mobile Base and it's Garage Trailer since I'm almost positive you'll bring them BOTH home!

[@Splitsie]

I'm honestly not sure where I want to put that warehouse :P

[@MopWhoSmells]

Why do i hear Carl Urban saying "Behold.... my stuff."?

[@Eisen_Jaeger]

I get this reference..

[@armastat]

@51:40 The perfectly scandalous idea formed... place all the stuff on your truck INTO the warehouse and then make it mobile?

[@MohdAradi]

for the event, please make a holographic projector on a rotor and have it display a blueprint of a ball with Letters " welcome to Splitsie's Junk Yard " or something like that

[@Trotils]

Well… storing big and heavy items high…. We don’t do that usually in our storage rooms because of safety and health protection concerns.

[@tokusutakechi7632]

you could imagine another kind of lifter competition where 2 teams of engineers face each other in a kind of American football match using lifters/cranes too move a sphere from one side of the stadium to the other this would be extremely fun (and clangy)

[@glabifrons]

@Splitsie Serious question: Why not just set GPS markers for things you want, but cannot currently carry, so you can go back after unloading to retrieve them? I was starting to think GPS was not allowed or limited or something, but then you set a marker halfway home from the warehouse you found.

[@PoolOfTrees]

I believe that uncollected scrap gets automatically removed by the server after a certain amount of time, so you'd have to be quick and hope that cleanup didn't happen before you went back. Or do what Splitsie did and leave a vehicle with his mobile scrap beacon which prevents nearby scrap from being deleted. Also he just often forgets to set GPS (but not as often as Capac).

[@Splitsie]

It's precisely that, marking something that'll get removed soon after serves little purpose 🙂

[@glabifrons]

@@Splitsie Some of those had power though. If you took ownership of the grid and left it with power, it wouldn't be taken by the trash-man... or am I missing something?

[@pancake___xd]

45:35 I know that feeling bro

[@BoroMonokli]

Door Armor, Door armor for everything!!!

[@kibradders8813]

you still really should increase the grip of the front wheels on the telehandler to stop them from sliding sideways when you turn

[@potatorocko]

FYI, with the trailer being attached via an extenadable crain, you basically has a tipper trailer...

[@Calaban619]

For the warehouse upper storage, how's this for a shelving idea: mound the mag plates to the back wall sideways. Sticky side down. So shelf on top, sticky side switchable underneath

[@Gottaculat]

Jenga tower, but you use your crane to pull and place the pieces.

[@chakatfirepaw]

Good idea, but more something for W4asted's Engineer Wars than this.

[@Dev-Shake]

Have you considered driving around with a more agile vehicle and without a crane or storage and just marking good finds, then coming back later with the crane to collect. It would allow you to prepare and bring relevant supplies.

[@blackholevortex]

There is the risk of scrap cleanup removing stuff in between. But it might be viable depending on how often scrap cleanup runs

[@btgbullseye]

@Splitsie You know real life American school busses have incredibly tight turn radiuses right? Getting the front wheels to 80° isn't difficult or uncommon. (there are some that can go to 90°, and some that also have rear wheel steering) They need it to compensate for how long they are. "Handling like a bus" refers to how heavy and long it is, not to how wide the turn radius is.

[@liasiona3420]

For the competition you should create a Jenga tower to test people's level of control.

[@johncassidy2298]

Battery management suggestion: Hot bar switch or programmable block script (or both) that turns off all but one small battery when the parking brake is on.